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Rest Finger to unlock?

Sorry Previously as in iOS 9.

"If you press the home button once and leave your finger on touchID it takes you to the springboard."

This is incorrect. It does not take you to the springboard...
 
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bushido said:
so i got an iPhone 6, turned it on, rebooted my iPhone and it works just as it did on iOS 9 which i had installed til like an hour ago.

iPhone sleeps > i press the home button to wake it > leave my finger on the TouchID and it takes me right to the springboard
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So "Rest Finger" ON = iOS 9 behaviour. Nice!
 
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This thread went down hill pretty quickly because it wasn't clearly explained that the title refers to a new setting in beta 2.
 
truciet said:
Sorry Previously as in iOS 9.

"If you press the home button once and leave your finger on touchID it takes you to the springboard."

This is incorrect. It does not take you to the springboard...
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I have tested iOS 10 b1 and b2 on an iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7". It does exactly that on those devices on both betas.
 
truciet said:
Sorry Previously as in iOS 9.

"If you press the home button once and leave your finger on touchID it takes you to the springboard."

This is incorrect. It does not take you to the springboard...
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well it does for me. gonna take a quick video now
 
truciet said:
It's not doing it for me and several others. We all upgraded though. Wonder if we need to do a clean install...

Edit: We all have 6S's.
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Maybe it worked differently on devices with touchID 2 as people frequently complained they went home too quickly and they couldn't see their notifications.
 
bushido said:
well it does for me. gonna take a quick video now
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No need. Looks like just a bug Apple needs to fix.
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Feenician said:
Maybe it worked differently on devices with touchID 2 as people frequently complained they went home too quickly and they couldn't see their notifications.
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I doubt they changed the sensor for SE/iPad Pro? I would assume the same as 6S.
 
truciet said:
No need. Looks like just a bug Apple needs to fix.
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I doubt they changed the sensor for SE/iPad Pro? I would assume the same as 6S.
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Nope. Bit of a sore one actually but both are touchID 1, same as in the 5s.
 
truciet said:
Wow that's crazy!!!
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For how new they are it seems odd. I can kinda see it in the cost constrained SE but the iPP is odd. Probably supply constraints (not withstanding the usual conspiracy theories)
 
Anyway, SEVERAL 6S/plus users are having that issue. Makes sense though why it doesn't work since it is super fast...
 
truciet said:
Anyway, SEVERAL 6S/plus users are having that issue. Makes sense though why it doesn't work since it is super fast...
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I have to press my home button twice to unlock on my 6 Plus (beta 1 and 2). Once to unlock and again to go to home. Obviously it's not a touch ID version issue as mine is version 1, not the S version 2. It's probably just a bug on certain devices.
 
On 10b1, my iPhone 6 had the annoying new behavior I described earlier. I had to press home to wake, rest to unlock, and then press again to drop to the Springboard.

After toggling the new setting and rebooting a couple of times, I have iOS 9 behavior back. Press, rest->springboard.
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Feenician said:
It's unfortunate you've had those issues

For now it works the way it works. If you want to unlock directly use the home button. The "rest to unlock" feature may deliver what you want at some point but right now, afaict, it doesn't.
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It took a couple of toggles and reboots, but it works for me now. I have iOS 9 behavior back on my iPhone 6.
 
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jhfenton said:
On 10b1, my iPhone 6 had the annoying new behavior I described earlier. I had to press home to wake, rest to unlock, and then press again to drop to the Springboard.

After toggling the new setting and rebooting a couple of times, I have iOS 9 behavior back. Press, rest->springboard.
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It took a couple of toggles and reboots, but it works for me now. I have iOS 9 behavior back on my iPhone 6.
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Not sure how it wasn't working for some people in beta 1. Both my 12.9" iPad Pro and iPhone 6 worked just fine to press the Home button once to wake the screen, leave my finger resting on the Touch ID and go right into the Home screen. The only time a second Home button press was required is when I would lift my registered finger off the Home button purposely to view a notification or widget.

The new to beta 2 option "rest to unlock" literally has changed nothing for all my devices.
 
lagwagon said:
Not sure how it wasn't working for some people in beta 1. Both my 12.9" iPad Pro and iPhone 6 worked just fine to press the Home button once to wake the screen, leave my finger resting on the Touch ID and go right into the Home screen. The only time a second Home button press was required is when I would lift my registered finger off the Home button purposely to view a notification or widget.

The new to beta 2 option "rest to unlock" literally has changed nothing for all my devices.
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Yeah I'm confused on what's it supposed to do exactly. It doesn't allow you to use the lock button and leave your finger on Touch ID to unlock, and changes nothing with the home button for me.
 
lancastor said:
In iOS10 you have to hard press home button twice.

- Hard press to wake up
- rest finger to unlock
- Hard press to go to the homescreen


I hate this beahviour :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Yeah. This is a true pain for older devices.
Apple simply screws us everyone owning iPhone 5, iPad mini 2, and iPad 4, as well as iPad Air. Oh, all iPod touch users.
 
lagwagon said:
How is it a horrible joke? Literally nothing has changed if you want to go straight to the Home screen. Pick up your phone, press just once to wake the screen and keep your registered finger on the Touch ID and it will go to the Home screen.
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I wish it was the old way where if I get a message or some other notification, I can just rest my finger on the TouchID home button and open the springboard. It's just what I'm used to now.

I've also had to have a couple of home buttons replaced and this was one way of not using them as much.

There's even been a few articles about this change.

http://bgr.com/2016/06/14/ios-10-swipe-unlock-press-home/

Ever since Touch ID was introduced, it was simple: place your finger on the home button, without pressing, and your phone will open. Simple, right? Well, not simple enough for Apple! In the new beta, if you’ve touched the lockscreen at all, using Touch ID will unlock the phone, but not open it. Instead, you first have to scan your finger, and then hit the home button to unlock your phone. It’s the opposite of what Apple has been training us to do for years, and it feels glitchy and bad.
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http://www.imangoss.net/2016/06/unl...thout-pressing-the-home-button-on-iOS-10.html

In iOS 10, you compulsorily have to press the home button to unlock your iPhone or iPad. Either you are going to unlock it by passcode or Touch ID, you need to press it anyway. As you might have noticed, there is a new feature where you can wake your device by flipping it. Now here also, you will have to press the home button to unlock your device. There is no point in integrating the proximity sensor to wake up the device if we have to press the home button. It could have unlocked by simply touching the Touch ID on 64 bit iPhones and iPads. But to unlock iPhones and iPads in iOS 10, pressing home button all the time is quite unusual because continuingly pressing the home button could brick it and what if your home button is not working?
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http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-10-beta-2-adds-rest-finger-to-unlock-option-for-touch-id/

Those who have been keeping up with iOS 10 developments may remember that Apple has changed the way the Lock screen works for this release, with the Home button needing to be pressed in order to initiate an unlock.

This is fine in theory, but means the users need to press the Home button a lot more than they used to. In fact, even when the screen is awake, you can’t simply rest your finger on the Home button to unlock the device using Touch ID, and for some people, that is downright uncomfortable.
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lagwagon said:
How is it a horrible joke? Literally nothing has changed if you want to go straight to the Home screen. Pick up your phone, press just once to wake the screen and keep your registered finger on the Touch ID and it will go to the Home screen.
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There are people like me who actually wake the device with the dedicated sleep/wake button and then just scan the fingerprint. I hate using the home button because they break so easily so this press to unlock really sucks for me.
 
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